Accenture Reviews in Chicago, IL Area

Pros

Great company, highly motivated people, lots of flexibility to try new things.

Cons

Work life balance can be a challenge, but this is expected in management consulting.

Pros

* Ability to determine your own career and which projects / clients to tackle
* Good managers make sure you don't get burnt out
* 5 weeks of vacation
* Good benefits
* Ability to work from home Fridays

Cons

* Some days are longer than 16 hours
* Upper management allows clients to determine work direction instead of Accenture promoting best practices.
* Ghosting hours - the only example of when Accenture doesn't always live by its values
* Interview process can take 3 months.

Pros

- Best people and talent
- Leadership focused on career development
- Client focused attitude
- Global opportunities
- Nice training opportunities

Cons

- Promotion opportunities are not as good as the past
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Pros

Compensation is good but not comparable to work/life balance and overall job satisfaction.

Cons

If you are an engineering student and thinking about working for Accenture DO NOT. You will not be satisfied. Every single former engineer I have spoken to regret the decision to work here, it is not technical, it is not challenging, it is staring at spreadsheets all day and doing work with little or no understanding of where/why its occurring. I do not understand why the recruiters have decided to zero in on the engineering students when so few of them stay for longer than 1-2 years to move onto more exciting and fulfilling opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Give the lower level employees meaningful work to do or you will lose them to more exciting opportunities. Be transparent with decisions and try your best to actually get to know the lower level employees.

Pros

great benefits, vacation time, work-life balance

Cons

no growth, bonuses/raises bad, CHANGE and uncertianty

Pros

Trained you for the job. Smart people and constant change in terms of learning opportunities.

Cons

frequent ravel, long hours and

Pros

Accenture does an excellent job managing worklife balance. There are times when you work very hard and long hours. However, that is offset by the ability to work from. Depending on your area, this could be on a regular basis or a few times a week.

Cons

I found that as an Experience Professional in the Enterprise space, promotions to Senior Mgt are very limited.

Advice to Senior Management

I would suggest to continue the level of communication you have done in the past. Employees find in valuable.

Pros

Accenture does a good job of taking people from all backgrounds and intergrating them into a team that performs well

Cons

Accenture is extremely large and is very set in its ways, you follow the methodology or risk being punished for not

Advice to Senior Management

Raise the salaries... i'm sure that every employee of just about every company says they arent paid enough but more $ is better

Pros

1. Great people
2. Good opportunities
3. Good Benefits
4. Paid time off... 27 days each year in addition to holidays

Cons

1. Compensation
2. Work at all hours due to global company structure

Pros

In general, I think Accenture is a great place to work. The most important aspect of any job in my opinion (even as much as the actual work being done) is the quality of the people you work with. I feel Accenture has great people to work with that are knowledgeable at what they do and are easy to get along with (for the most part).

In addition, Accenture is good at working to ensure people are in roles that they are a good fit.

Cons

Accenture is a large company and thus has "large company" rigidness. Most notably, in my opinion, is their compensation packages. Although Accenture has good benefits, their salaries can leave much to be desired. Someone of the same caliber as an Accenture employee can probably earn more at another company, regardless of role. I attribute this to the fact that there is a large supply of people that want to work at Accenture and therefore Accenture doesn't have to pay significant salaries to attract or retain employees.